Sentence examples for outpost against from inspiring English sources

Its principal function was that of a papal outpost against attack by sea.

It served as a frontier outpost against Tatar raids, and its population consisted mainly of Ukrainian Cossacks.

Until the mid-19th century it marked the northern limit of provincial expansion and served as a strategic outpost against the Indians of the Gran Chaco region.

Founded in 1849 by Major Ripley Allen Arnold as a military outpost against Comanche raids, it was named for Major General William Jenkins Worth, commander of U.S. troops in Texas at the time.

Iqaluit's population climbed steadily in the 1950s as construction workers and military personnel were brought to construct a Distant Early Warning line, a network of radar stations that turned Iqaluit into an outpost against potential Soviet intrusions.

Publishing may once have been a rebellious outpost against this hegemony, but my feeling is that as the industry has steadily lost confidence in the British public's capacity for seriousness, the pressure to move away from the heavy stuff has fallen more on female writers than male.

Those were centres of religious conversion, agricultural and pastoral production, and manufacturing and trade as well as strategic outposts against Portuguese expansion from southern Brazil.

The regiment then moved to the western and northern edges of the town, to man an outpost line against a counterattack.

In "The Jewish State", Theodor Herzl described his ambition to create a colony that would be "a rampart of Europe against Asia... an outpost of civilization against barbarism".

It was founded in 1540 as an outpost to guard against Indians.

Built as Russia's southernmost stronghold, this city of about 300,000 still has the feel of an outpost, permanently braced against the turmoil of the Caucasus.